Historical linguistics 1999 selected papers from the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Vancouver, 9-13 August 1999 /

Historical linguistics 1999 selected papers from the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Vancouver, 9-13 August 1999 / [Texte imprimé] : edited by Laurel J. Brinton ; with the editorial assistance of Desireʹe Lundstrom - Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, cop. 2001 - 1 vol. (XII-389 p.) : ill., maps ; 23 cm - Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. 215 0304-0763 ; . - Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science (J. Benjamins, Amsterdam). Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory .

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Machine generated contents note: Contributors' addresses ix -- Preface XI -- How far has farfrom become grammaticalized? -- Minoji Akimoto -- Recent advances in the reconstruction of the Proto-Munda verb 13 -- Gregory D.S. Anderson and Norman H. Zide -- Multivariable Reanalysis and phonological split 31 -- Janice M. Aski -- Are Old English conjunct clauses really verb-final? 49 -- Kristin Bech -- Alternation according to person in Italo-Romance 63 -- Delia Bentley and Th6rhallur Eyth6rsson -- On ablaut and aspect in the history of Aramaic 75 -- VitBubenik -- Language change and the phonological lexicon of Korean 89 -- Young-mee Y Cho -- Animals and vegetables, Uto-Aztecan noun derivation, semantic -- classification, and cultural history 105 -- Karen Dakin -- Gradience and linguistic change 119 -- David Denison -- Distinctive vowel length in Old French: Evidence and implications 145 -- Randall Gess -- Remains of a submerged continent: Preaspiration in the languages of -- Northwest Europe 157 -- Gunnar Olafur Hansson -- Rapid change among expletive polarity items 175 -- Jacob Hoeksema -- The conversational factor in language change: From prenominal to -- postnominal demonstratives 187 -- Maria M. Manoliu -- On the origin of the Portuguese inflected infinitive: A new perspective -- on an enduring debate 207 -- Ana Maria Martins -- Innovation of the indirect reflexive in Old French 223 -- D. Gary Miller -- Lexical forces shaping the evolution of grammar 241 -- Marianne Mithun -- Why "me" and "thee"? 253 -- lohanna Nichols -- The English s-genitive: Animacy, topicality, and possessive relationship -- in a diachronic perspective 277 -- Anette Rosenbach -- Default inheritance hierarchies and the evolution of inflectional classes 293 -- Gregory Stump -- On the eve of a new paradigm: The current challenges to comparative -- linguistics in a Kuhnian perspective 309 -- Marie-Lucie Tarpent -- Modeling koineization 325 -- Donald N. Tuten -- Coreference in the Popolocan languages 337 -- Annette Veerman-Leichsenring -- Atlantis Semitica: Structural contact features in Celtic and English 351 -- Theo Vennemann -- Index of languages and language families 371 -- Index of names 375 -- Index of subjects.

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